Energy Sel SPDR Downtrend Replay (2014-11-21 to 2014-12-15)
Replay 32 trading days of the 2014 XLE correction, capturing a 17.1% drawdown and a sharp 6.4% single-bar drop. You advance day-by-day through 7 decision points, defend your calls, and receive an AI coach review in simulated-only training.
32 daily bars · 7 decision points · 2014-11 to 2014-12 · Stocks
Key facts
This window spans 44 days with a peak-to-trough drawdown of 17.1% and a 10.0% run-up.
- Max drawdown
- −17.1%
- Max run-up
- +10.0%
- Duration
- 44 days
- Largest single-day move
- −6.4%
- Bars
- 32 Daily bars
- Decision points
- 7
Every figure above is computed programmatically from this replay’s own candle series — no editorial input, no LLM. Methodology: Methodology
The market advances day by day. You only see candles up to the current day — as if you were really there.
At key decision points choose Buy / Trim / Exit / Hold. Each decision advances the timeline by one day.
After settlement you get a six-dimension score and an AI coach review. Your result enters the scenario leaderboard.
Event Replay
What happened — and what it teaches
In late 2014 the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF faced a meaningful correction within a decade already marked by volatile commodity cycles. The replay spans 32 trading days from mid-November through late December, placing you inside 7 decision points—3 flagged as critical—where your positioning choices would be tested against a deteriorating energy backdrop. This is historical context made interactive: no capital at risk, but every call recorded and reviewed.
The closing price declined from 43.5 to 40.06, representing a -7.9% net loss over the period. More striking was the trajectory: the drawdown reached 17.1% at its worst, and the largest single-bar move measured 6.4%. These figures capture not just directional loss but the kind of intraday violence that forces traders to confront whether their risk parameters were actually appropriate for the exposure they carried.
This scenario trains the mental game as much as the analytical one. You learn to distinguish between a thesis breaking down and mere volatility noise, to size positions knowing a 6.4% single-bar move could hit without warning, and to act—or refrain—without the distortion of recent P&L clouding judgment. The 2010s taught many investors that energy sector leadership can evaporate quickly; this replay lets you practice responding to that reality before it surfaces in live markets.